Russian Communism: Leninism and Stalinizm is what? The specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism… So what is this specter called communism and how haunting is it really? The Webster’s Dictionary says that communism is a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party. Karl Marx says that communism is abolition of private property. Others say …showed first 75 words of 1319 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1319 total…eventually finds what he/she needs, everybody ends up stealing. Although everybody ends up being a thief, nothing is ever found missing. That’s the reality of the Soviet communism. The main theme of the book is the defining of communism in a way that anyone could understand. Communism, as the book defines it, is “laughter through tears.” It is gloom and heartbreaking, yet it is so irrational and absurd that it makes you laugh.